Strawesome uses a safe alternative to etching and engraving to give you a Branded Straw with your printed logo or graphic. We’ve been piloting this offering for about a year with great results and the demand has been huge despite not advertising publicly that this service was available. Why Branded Straws? Branded straws are great… View more
Dear Daedra: How many glass straws per day does the average family use? Using the statistic that 500 million straws are used and thrown away each day in the USA, we can derive that each person uses 1.6 straws per day. For a family of four, that’s 6.4 straws per day per family. Per year,… View more
If you are a Starbucks® customer, you may be looking for safe eco-friendly Starbucks® replacement straws for your Starbucks® To-Go cups. Stainless Steel and Metal Straws are no longer a smart choice because in August 2016, Starbucks® recalled millions of stainless steel metal straws due to reported mouth lacerations. Plastic straws are not a good… View more
Dear Daedra: Do you make reusable straws for the handicapped and disabled? I’ve had many handicapped and disabled customers contact me to create custom straws for their use. The most unique custom straw I made was for a quadriplegic customer who reached out to me looking for a custom straw. He was currently drinking from a… View more
Dear Daedra: What shipping materials do you use? I’d hate to get my reusable glass straw wrapped in plastic! If you are one of our customers that has left some version of this note in your order comments, we appreciate your stand that companies go green! When we first started selling glass straws in late… View more
If you are not building the habit to Bring Your Own Straw, consider these 5 reasons why you might want to take that on ASAP and how we can help: Using single-use straws is wasteful. The average person uses 1.6 per day in the USA. That’s 584 per year and with 323 million people in… View more
Until recent years, the main option for wine straws (in fact most straws) has been of course plastic. Since beverages do not taste the same when sipped through plastic (due to toxins leaching into drinks from the straw), it has reduced the wine sipping enjoyment level down a few notches. Thankfully, there is another option… View more
5 Gift Ideas for the Holidays – Look No Further The holidays are upon us and you know what that means; finding the right gift for everyone on your list. Let’s face it, shopping for the perfect gift is a stress-filled drag that can turn even the kindest shopper into a Scrooge. We feel your… View more
As you are probably aware, the average cocktail is usually accompanied by one or more plastic straws. The straws are then used to consume that cocktail and immediately thrown away. The process repeats as each new cocktail is served with new plastic straws. Within a few hours, the average bar can throw away 600 straws. No wonder… View more
Cleaning and caring for glass is something most of us know how to do and take for granted. But caring for a glass straw, on the other hand, might just catch a few of us off guard. “How do you clean a glass straw?” is a very common question customers ask us in person. Few are taught… View more
